* The Readings and Viewings page on Anne Leonard's course site for [http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/lib1201f13mw/readings/ LIB 1201 Research & Documentation for the Information Age] shows how readings from the internet and those in library databases can be linked to for student use.

* The Readings and Viewings page on Anne Leonard's course site for [http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/lib1201f13mw/readings/ LIB 1201 Research & Documentation for the Information Age] shows how readings from the internet and those in library databases can be linked to for student use.

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* The [http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/ocw Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare] from the Center for Social Media at American University is designed to help those using materials in their open courses to interpret and apply fair use under United States copyright law. This covers options for using materials that may be under copyright; that is, they are not open educational resources, but might be able to be used in courses under fair use.

* The [http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/ocw Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare] from the Center for Social Media at American University is designed to help those using materials in their open courses to interpret and apply fair use under United States copyright law. This covers options for using materials that may be under copyright; that is, they are not open educational resources, but might be able to be used in courses under fair use.

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* Ethan Wattrall, an anthropologist at Michigan State University, wrote a great short piece for the Prof Hacker blog on the Chronicle of Higher Education covering some [http://chronicle.com/blogPost/blogPost-content/26945/ Solutions for Dealing with Copyrighted Materials in an Open Access Course].

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* Ethan Wattrall, an anthropologist at Michigan State University, wrote a great short piece for the Prof Hacker blog on the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'' covering some [http://chronicle.com/blogPost/blogPost-content/26945/ Solutions for Dealing with Copyrighted Materials in an Open Access Course].

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* [http://www.cnx.org/ Connexions], developed at Rice University, offers open college course content including text and multimedia in lesson-sized modules that can be used as-is or combined into textbooks.

* The [http://www.oercommons.org/ OER Commons], developed by the non-profit Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), is a repository for open educational resources for students from preschool through college developed at schools around the world.

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* The [http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/ College Open Textbooks] Collaborative, which emerged from the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources, offers a list of open textbooks and other open educational resources by subject as well as peer reviews of many to assist faculty in choosing material for their courses.

* The [http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ Online Books Page] hosted at the University of Pennsylvania lists over a million free books on the web across a variety of subject areas.

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[http://free-ed.net/free-ed/ Free-ed.net]

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* The [http://dp.la Digital Public Library of America] (DPLA) is a portal to over 5 million texts, images, primary sources, and other materials from libraries, museums, and archives across the U.S.

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[http://digital-textbooks.blogspot.com/ Digital Textbooks blog]

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* This [http://learningthroughdigitalmedia.net/a-digital-learning-tool-kit Digital Learning Tool Kit] from the edited volume ''Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy'' offers links to many tech tools for creating and using open educational resources.

[http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Open Educational Resources Grants]

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Latest revision as of 20:22, 22 October 2013

High-quality open access curricular materials are increasingly available online, and can provide an alternative to traditionally-published, high-priced textbooks. This guide will help faculty incorporate freely-available open access and public domain resources into courses.

Contents

City Tech Efforts

The First Year Writing @ City Tech site on the OpenLab collects resources and materials related to teaching writing and learning about writing instruction.

City Tech Digital Reader for English Composition, created by Johannah Rodgers (English) & Anne Leonard (Library), curates texts and essays that are freely-available on the internet on a variety of themes for use in writing and literature courses.

The Precalculus textbook written by Thomas Tradler and Holly Carley (Math). A PDF version is available for free download and a print version to purchase from Lulu.com.

Best Practices and Guidelines

The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare from the Center for Social Media at American University is designed to help those using materials in their open courses to interpret and apply fair use under United States copyright law. This covers options for using materials that may be under copyright; that is, they are not open educational resources, but might be able to be used in courses under fair use.

Open Textbooks and Other Open Content

Repositories of open textbooks, courses, and learning objects:

Open Course Library is a collection of faculty-developed open educational materials (textbooks, syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments) managed by the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges.

Connexions, developed at Rice University, offers open college course content including text and multimedia in lesson-sized modules that can be used as-is or combined into textbooks.

The OER Commons, developed by the non-profit Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), is a repository for open educational resources for students from preschool through college developed at schools around the world.

The Open CourseWare Consortium website provides a search engine for open college and university‐level educational materials organized as courses.

The College Open Textbooks Collaborative, which emerged from the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources, offers a list of open textbooks and other open educational resources by subject as well as peer reviews of many to assist faculty in choosing material for their courses.

MERLOT, a long-standing project out of the California State University system, is a peer-reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials.

Open access texts & books

The well-established Project Gutenberg website offers free downloadable versions of books in the public domain and those in which the copyright has expired.

The Online Books Page hosted at the University of Pennsylvania lists over a million free books on the web across a variety of subject areas.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has compiled this useful Directory of Open Access Databases that lists research and scholarly databases available free to anyone, regardless of institutional affiliation.

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a portal to over 5 million texts, images, primary sources, and other materials from libraries, museums, and archives across the U.S.

Copyright and Fair Use Tools

The Digital Copyright Slider created by the American Library Association's Office of Information Technology Policy can help you quickly determine if material is likely to be copyrighted.

The Fair Use Evaluator, also from the ALA, can help you better understand how to determine the "fairness" of a use under copyright law.

Design and Authoring Tools

The City Tech OpenLab can be used to create and display course materials for any department or course at the college.

This Digital Learning Tool Kit from the edited volume Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy offers links to many tech tools for creating and using open educational resources.